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Why do you think Romney refuses to release his tax returns (still)

Why do you think Romney chose to with hold his tax returns for all but the last year?

  • He's cheating on his taxes

    Votes: 3 9.7%
  • He thinks it's bad for his public image if they're too low

    Votes: 15 48.4%
  • He lost them

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • He fells no need/Does not have the time

    Votes: 1 3.2%
  • other (please tell us)

    Votes: 12 38.7%

  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .

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After all the public demand you'd think Romney would show his tax returns for the past 10 years however low they are.
 
After all the public demand you'd think Romney would show his tax returns for the past 10 years however low they are.
What public demand? Was there a vote on it? :roll:

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Fine media demand
 
He knows the information will be used as it is and as it'll inevitably be distorted to create a pseudo argument regarding Romney's character or patriotism and likely sees it as a worthless endeavor. He's likely seen polling that NOT releasing the tax returns is less damaging than the spin cycle that will result from releasing them and has opted to take a page from the Obama play book and largely ignore the requests from the hacks who keep demanding them. He's met the legal requirements (as had Obama re: birth certificate) and he's under no obligation to go any further.

Quite frankly, I'm continually disturbed by the idiots on both sides who keep pretending this nonsense matters. If Romney had broken the law in the last 10-12 years in reference to his taxes he'd have likely been caught by now. If Obama weren't a natural born citizen it'd have been caught before he became the party nominee.

Focusing on minute, largely pointless nonsense issues instead of focusing on record and ability is about 50% of the problem with politics in this country. Just stop, already.
 
Because that would be a total diversion from the campaign for the next 3 weeks. The goal of the Obama team is diversion.
 
This is PURE speculation.

Romney doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning. Tax returns contain a lot of revealing information about your business methodologies and their results. Why give this info to your competitors?

I think he is pretty smart and knows that he is a throw-away candidate. When this is over, he'll go back to making more money.
 
After all the public demand you'd think Romney would show his tax returns for the past 10 years however low they are.

That thar Bo-Rack Huisein Obama refuses to show his real birth certificate. Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot JKF, it was my mamma who shot JFK.Big Foot is real I saw him eating a bag cheetos one day.The government masterminded 9-11.Bush lied for war and stole the elections.Aliens abduct people and shove probes up their asses.
 
I've never understood the obsession with Romney's tax returns. He hasn't been arrested/fined/etc. for failing to pay his taxes, what else do you need to know? If you have a problem that he pays a lower tax rate than most, if not all middle class families, fine, but don't blame him, blame the government for allowing him to pay that low of a tax rate.
 
The real reason why he doesn't release the tax returns is because most people have no idea the difference type of tax he pays. If it shows that he paid a low 13% the liberal media will blow it out of proportion telling the American public how unfair he pays 13% while we pay 33%. And never once will they explain to you have the tax rate is on the money he receives for investments, not income. He does not release it because of the simple fact that most people have no idea about our overly confusing and useless and unfair tax code. Romney's tax are a no issue anyway. Why care about what he pays in taxes other than to distract from the real problem of most American's not able to pay taxes because they don't have a job.
 
This is PURE speculation.

Romney doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning. Tax returns contain a lot of revealing information about your business methodologies and their results. Why give this info to your competitors?

I think he is pretty smart and knows that he is a throw-away candidate. When this is over, he'll go back to making more money.

I don't see him as a throw away candidate(being that incumbents during an economic crisis tend to have a lower shot of winning than otherwise), but I think he's got some hurdles to get over. The primary one being that he isn't relateable to the common man. He's a lot richer, smarter, and better educated than most of us, and even more, he might be cheating on his taxes. The average Joe from middle America can't relate to that.
 
I won't argue the richer, smarter and better educated part. The accusation of "cheating on your taxes" is absolute partisan speculation and negates the value of the obvious and valid observations.

"Cheating on taxes" is a serious federal crime. You might just as well accuse him of drug dealing or burglary. IMHO, the odds are virtually zero that a man in his position, who requires extensive tax preparation work involving many others, is "cheating".

As for the "economic" crisis, that (IMHO) is not what is happening. We are coming into a new reality of automation and globalization and there will NEVER be low unemployment again. As for those who suffer from the new reality, which candidate is more likely to offer them welfare? Maybe you don't approve of welfare but that's kind of beside the point. I think you'll find "the poor" voting Obusha AND a surprising percentage of high income people that feel sympathetic to the less fortunate.

Of course, I've been wrong 2 or 3 times in my life so anything is possible. I hold both of them in such low regard that I'm voting 3rd party for the first time in my life.




I don't see him as a throw away candidate(being that incumbents during an economic crisis tend to have a lower shot of winning than otherwise), but I think he's got some hurdles to get over. The primary one being that he isn't relateable to the common man. He's a lot richer, smarter, and better educated than most of us, and even more, he might be cheating on his taxes. The average Joe from middle America can't relate to that.
 
Thing is every one already knows he pays 13/14% on taxes from his 1 return, why not release the rest unless you have something to hide.

Being rich and well educated doesn't make you smart. Being smart and well educated doesn't mean you have the interests of the nation and the world at heart.

Every one of our presidents have been to top schools, not all of them are brilliant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_education

Both candidates have been to and graduated from top schools btw

Obama from Colombia and Harvard Law
Romney from Stanford and Harvard Business
 
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Thing is every one already knows he pays 13/14% on taxes from his 1 return, why not release the rest unless you have something to hide.

Being rich and well educated doesn't make you smart. Being smart and well educated doesn't mean you have the interests of the nation and the world at heart.

Every one of our presidents have been to top schools, not all of them are brilliant.

List of Presidents of the United States by education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Both candidates have been to and graduated from top schools btw

Obama from Colombia and Harvard Law
Romney from Stanford and Harvard Business

Surprise, folks...we have another crazy taxer on the forum.
 
The taxereturns will most likely reveal that Mittens has placed his priorities outside the USA and apart from the American people. A true patriot who wants to lead our nation whould place the nation and its people first. I suspect Mittens has placed the worship of Mammon first and is more than happy to use other nations and tax law to his own advantage regardless of its negative impact upon the nation and the American people.

He wants to avoid that poison which will drive independents away from him in droves. The conservatives and right wing of course will stay the course no matter what.
 
Fine media demand

To be fair, this is the media that has been demanding a Presidential press conference for quite a while. At least that is a situation where what the President does has a bearing on our lives. What Romney did in filing taxes is no different than you or me--yes, as long as he followed the law. To me it's the same as asking both candidates how many times they went to church. I DON'T CARE and my knowing isn't RELEVANT.
 
That's a good argument for a normal everyday citizen. Remember though Mr Romney is running to be our President. He made decision being fully aware of the scrutiny that comes with that and every aspect of his life past & present would be under a microscope. So blame him for giving Obama this fire power. Whatever his taxes say. He & his team decided that it would be a unrecoverable blow to release em. So I guess he's hoping what.....Obama forgets about em. Idk
 
That's a good argument for a normal everyday citizen. Remember though Mr Romney is running to be our President. He made decision being fully aware of the scrutiny that comes with that and every aspect of his life past & present would be under a microscope. So blame him for giving Obama this fire power. Whatever his taxes say. He & his team decided that it would be a unrecoverable blow to release em. So I guess he's hoping what.....Obama forgets about em. Idk

Of course there is more scrutiny, the question always should be, where does it stop? Unfortunately the Obama campaign has a long history of seeking the release of even court sealed documents from pretty much every campaign he ever ran, so I prefer not to give Obama the benefit of the doubt on this issue that his motives are altruistic. Those people who initially called for the release of Obama's birth certificate at least were directly challenging his qualifications to be president. I'm in the camp that if the state of Hawaii says he was born there, that's fine by me.

I suspect that most calling for Romney's tax returns beyond his legal requirement to disclose are either jealous or carrying the water for the Obama campaign. Just as with Hawaii and the birth certificate. If the IRS is ok with Romney's tax returns, that's fine by me.
 
Question isn't even a tough one. Romney's tax returns will predictably be relatively complex and contain large numbers. Which would be pure gold that Axlerod/Obama and crew would love to pick apart/distort. The focus of the Obama campaign to this point has been almost entirely based on defining/demonizing Romney. Little or nothing about the issues.

Romney's tax returns would just give them more content to distort in the next campaign commercial.
 
The taxereturns will most likely reveal that Mittens has placed his priorities outside the USA and apart from the American people.

A true patriot who wants to lead our nation whould place the nation and its people first. I suspect Mittens has placed the worship of Mammon first and is more than happy to use other nations and tax law to his own advantage regardless of its negative impact upon the nation and the American people.

He wants to avoid that poison which will drive independents away from him in droves. The conservatives and right wing of course will stay the course no matter what.


Just to make you aware -- Mitt Romney did not write the tax code. Using the tax code to your advantage is smart -- if you are not using it to your advantage, then you are an idiot.
 
This is why Romney doesn't want to release his tax returns:

St. Matthew 6: 1-4

1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have bglory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall breward thee openly.
 
Just to make you aware -- Mitt Romney did not write the tax code. Using the tax code to your advantage is smart -- if you are not using it to your advantage, then you are an idiot.

Exactly, since when is it a crime to be smart?
 
I want the taxes issue to die myself. Maybe the embassies being attacked will trigger a more serious debate. Doubtful. I can't tell you where it stops. I can Damn sure tell you when though. Romney's been running for president 5 years now, why the hell didn’t he prepare for this and have at least those 5 yrs ready to go. Let's be really be honest here, this team it ain't a good team. As far as the birth certificate, I guess I don't understand what your saying?
 
Just to make you aware -- Mitt Romney did not write the tax code. Using the tax code to your advantage is smart -- if you are not using it to your advantage, then you are an idiot.

Unless you want the people of the USA to put their faith in you and you are attempting to convince them you should lead this country. Then you might have a problem with fvoring other nations and other people instead of the USA.
 
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